RE: [j-nsp] How to turn the laser off ?!

From: Berislav Todorovic (beri@kpnqwest.net)
Date: Thu Nov 08 2001 - 08:21:29 EST


Ah ... now I see. That seems to work only on 5.0 and later though ...

Thanks! ;-)

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Jane Chen wrote:

>> You can try "request chassis pic <fpc-slot> <pic-slot> offline".
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Berislav Todorovic [mailto:beri@kpnqwest.net]
>> > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 4:18 AM
>> > To: juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net
>> > Subject: [j-nsp] How to turn the laser off ?!
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Maybe someone of you knows some trick how to turn an optical
>> > interface off
>> > physically (i.e. shutdown its transmitting laser) on the
>> > Juniper routers.
>> > Seems an easy question? Not ...
>> >
>> > Unlike Cisco routers, where "interface bla-bla -> shutdown"
>> > does the job
>> > correctly and affects the interface electronics to switch the
>> > interface
>> > off - Junipers don't do it! If you just do "interface bla-bla
>> > -> disable"
>> > the interface will appear to be "administratively down", its
>> > subinterfaces
>> > will go down (which is ok), but the interface device itself
>> > will remain
>> > alive - the light will still stay on and it will even show
>> > all SDH/SONET
>> > alarms that might occur.
>> >
>> > On M40's and smaller - I can turn a particular PIC off, but
>> > not on M160's.
>> > Any clue?
>> >
>> > Thaks a lot!
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Beri
>> >
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--------- Berislav Todorovic, Senior NOC Specialist --------
------- KPNQwest N.V. - IP NOC (formerly EUnet NOC) ------
---- Wilhelmina van Pruisenweg 78, 2595 AN Den Haag, NL ----
--- Phone: +31-70-379-3990; Mobile: +31-651-333-641 ---
-- Email: beri@kpnqwest.net <=> beri@EU.net --
--- _ _ ____ _ .--. ____ ____ __/_ ---
----- /__/ /___/ /\ / / / | / /___/ /___ / ------
------ _/ \_ / _/ \/ (__.\ |/\/ /___ ____/ (__. -----



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